Cool games on the interweb redux

[Fin Archangel]

Dammit guys, I did NOT need to be introduced to Element today. I should have been studying and/or sleeping since seven hours ago >:[

[I Am Raven]

Cursed Treasure. It's a tower defense game, but this time, the towers belong to the bad guys. Overall fun gameplay.

[Nyx]

This isn't a flash game, but its a small MMO that i think some people might like.

Astonia

And yes i know flash games are the preference, but the OP didn't totally exclude small .exe files.

[SecondTalon]

Actually..

And don't bother linking any .exe that are installers. We don't want to install something on our system, we want something that can be played right after downloading. But again - Flash or Java is really what we're going for here because it's platform independent... I'm just letting some .exe files in because they're Deathworm or something similar.

[Xanthir]

Cursed Treasure. It's a tower defense game, but this time, the towers belong to the bad guys. Overall fun gameplay.

I like it! Your description was slightly misleading - I thought that the computer would control the towers somehow. The way it works is that you, the player, are controlling orcs, undead, and demons, each of which has different types of towers.

I like the gameplay. The costing is pretty nice (upgrades are cheap but weak, tower costs scale up as you buy more of them), though I'm not sure how much I'll like the terrain restrictions yet. I like tower upgrades being tied to XP, because it makes the choice between new towers and upgraded towers easier. Finally, the XP system for you as a player feels pretty nice.

[SecondTalon]

Cursed Treasure. It's a tower defense game, but this time, the towers belong to the bad guys. Overall fun gameplay.

I like it! Your description was slightly misleading - I thought that the computer would control the towers somehow.

You want The Anti-Tower Defense Game. That's where you buy the minions and hope the computer's towers don't flatten them.


That said, I liked how Cursed Treasure did a lot of things. It's an actual interesting variation on the TD game, what with towers needing experience before you can level them, and the terrain limiting where you can place them.

[I Am Raven]

I suck at describing games. Good thing you two make up for my obvious lack of descriptiveness. Thanks. I completely agree with what Xanthir and ST wrote.

[el_loco_avs]

Cursed Treasure. It's a tower defense game, but this time, the towers belong to the bad guys. Overall fun gameplay.

I like it! Your description was slightly misleading - I thought that the computer would control the towers somehow.

You want The Anti-Tower Defense Game. That's where you buy the minions and hope the computer's towers don't flatten them.


That said, I liked how Cursed Treasure did a lot of things. It's an actual interesting variation on the TD game, what with towers needing experience before you can level them, and the terrain limiting where you can place them.

Interesting twist indeed. Firing up the anti-tower defense game now, because I thought it was that at first too.

[Xanthir]

Cursed Treasure. It's a tower defense game, but this time, the towers belong to the bad guys. Overall fun gameplay.

I like it! Your description was slightly misleading - I thought that the computer would control the towers somehow. The way it works is that you, the player, are controlling orcs, undead, and demons, each of which has different types of towers.

I like the gameplay. The costing is pretty nice (upgrades are cheap but weak, tower costs scale up as you buy more of them), though I'm not sure how much I'll like the terrain restrictions yet. I like tower upgrades being tied to XP, because it makes the choice between new towers and upgraded towers easier. Finally, the XP system for you as a player feels pretty nice.

Actually, I think this is the best TD game I've ever played. The forced tower variety via terrain restrictions requires you to be somewhat creative in handling things rather than simply solving every level with the same hammer, while the high-ground tiles reinject flexibility into your tower layouts.

What I like most, though, are the well-balanced and interesting upgrades you can give yourself as you level up. I've been neglecting orcs for a while, for example, and am kicking myself now, as maxing your tree-cutting and pairing it with mana upgrades from the undead is a huge power combo for quick money-making within a level. As well, the ability power-ups you get in the middle of each tree, and the bonus abilities at the capstone of each, are both subtle and amazingly useful.

At the moment I've got Brilliant (no one touched my gems at any point) for the first 6 levels and Excellent (gems were touched, but not lost) for all but the last two. The *fucking* Ninja champion gets me most of the time.

~TJ

[Xanthir]

Learning to hold a Meteor spell ready on any major ninja wave has solved the last of my problems. I'm pretty sure the rest is just mop-up now.

[I Am Raven]

I'm still having some problems with ninja champions, but I guess if I put some more points into the meteor damage skill I'll be fine. But yeah, holding that spell during Ninja waves comes in handy a lot of times.
One question: has anyone ever used the Frenzy spell regularly? I mean, I use Meteor all the time. Every level in fact (not wave). But I only ever used frenzy 2, maybe 3 times, to see what it did...

[Xanthir]

I rarely use either spell, actually. I've learned to put a ton of towers right at the end to take out ninjas, so I don't need all that much. But if I have the mana for it, I'll throw a Frenzy a second or two after a Ninja Champion smoke-bombs, then quickly ready a meteor as well. That way, the towers are frenzied as soon as he comes out of hiding for tons of damage, and then I can land a meteor as well if they don't immediately kill it.

I was able to finish all the levels, at least, without using any spell. I'm only using them now to get Brilliants on everything.

That all said, Frenzy probably is the weakest and least useful of all the spells. You never really get overwhelmed, and there are only two "difficult" enemies - the assassins and the ninjas. Frenzying during a large assassin wave is useful, since every hit counts against them. Frenzying to ensure that you can lay down a lot of pain at the end of a ninja wave can work, but I prefer Meteor when I definitely need it.

[rigwarl]

Put a tower at the very start of the level to trigger the ninjas' smoke bomb early.

[I Am Raven]

Yeah, I mostly use those demon temples for that because of the fire rate. Plus if you upgrade it to an evileye temple, it works wonders on other levels!

[Xanthir]

Yeah, I mostly use those demon temples for that because of the fire rate. Plus if you upgrade it to an evileye temple, it works wonders on other levels!

I did that at first for precisely that reason, but instead I try to use orc dens at the beginning now, because their arrows do more single-hit damage. It's really important to hit those assholes as powerfully as possible immediately, so you don't have to do as much damage when they uncloak.

But yeah, evileye temples are wondrous when grouped with other things.

[I Am Raven]

I did that at first for precisely that reason, but instead I try to use orc dens at the beginning now, because their arrows do more single-hit damage. It's really important to hit those assholes as powerfully as possible immediately, so you don't have to do as much damage when they uncloak.

+1

[Qwert]

Found another neat game: Balloon in a Wasteland

2D side scroller shooter where waves of enemies come at you as you try to survive and repair your balloon to escape.


Word of advice: skip the shotgun and go for the uzi.

[I Am Raven]

Word of advice: skip the shotgun and go for the uzi.

For real.
Can reccomend this game to anyone.

[Xanthir]

I found BiaW pretty subpar, unfortunately. The balance is *way* off. Turrets, for example, are damn near useless even when you spend the ridiculously huge amounts to upgrade all 3 fully. Repair stations are useless. The basic med station is good, but you never need more than that. Once you get a fort, you can just ignore enemies for the rest of the game if you want, coming down only to repair your balloon. Uzi and Assault Rifle/Chain Gun are supremely more powerful than the high-damage-low-ammo weapons.

[Scigatt]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

[Naurgul]

I found BiaW pretty subpar, unfortunately. The balance is *way* off. Turrets, for example, are damn near useless even when you spend the ridiculously huge amounts to upgrade all 3 fully. Repair stations are useless. The basic med station is good, but you never need more than that. Once you get a fort, you can just ignore enemies for the rest of the game if you want, coming down only to repair your balloon. Uzi and Assault Rifle/Chain Gun are supremely more powerful than the high-damage-low-ammo weapons.

Completely agree with all your remarks. I still loved the game for some reason, though.

[Phen]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

Damn, you beat me to it!

This game is really fun. You have to make an assembly line of sorts for various robots. The robots all have a colour code (like red red red blue red) and each puzzle presents a different challenge, like "Only let robots pass if the last two colours are blue!"

[Coin]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

Excellent game! I find it quite difficult and have had lots of fun trying to find algorithms which will work
The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory.

[a_fuzzyduck]

Epic genocide

Yeah, so my sleeping patterns are still off after finding this at 11 on Saturday night...

[Ivora]

King of Fighters Wing at arcade pod.

AMAZING.

[Chris Dude70]

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

Highly addictive.
Awesome soundtrack.

High score among my group of friends is 41k

Good luck.

[a_fuzzyduck]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

Excellent game! I find it quite difficult and have had lots of fun trying to find algorithms which will work
The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory.

programming games for not just the win, but the domestic treble

[Dasboard]

Epic genocide

Yeah, so my sleeping patterns are still off after finding this at 11 on Saturday night...

I needed that 5 hours of my life

[zerker2000]

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

Highly addictive.
Awesome soundtrack.

High score among my group of friends is 41k

Good luck.

Per run, or total? On my last wish on my second try, I got 22K, so it shouldn't be such a stretch to get ~50k total.
EDIT: Just discovered stars combo; As predicted,
75k total!
When playing flash games, Lag is good .

EDIT2: W00T! 90k total, 52k run! My work is done here.

[I Am Raven]

They may have been posted before, but not all of them, I'm sure...
Have some games with no stunning graphics or gameplay, but one heck of a plot. Go play. Seriously, they're beautiful.

Colour My Heart
Colour My World
Colour My Dreams <-- Kinda spooky and different from the rest.
Colour My Fate
Colour My Life

[4=5]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

Excellent game! I find it quite difficult and have had lots of fun trying to find algorithms which will work
The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory.

programming games for not just the win, but the domestic treble

it is an excellent game. I'm using a library computer so each time I play it I get to start over from the beginning and make the solutions simpler.

[a_fuzzyduck]

Here's a really cool game

Manufactoria

Excellent game! I find it quite difficult and have had lots of fun trying to find algorithms which will work
The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory.

programming games for not just the win, but the domestic treble

it is an excellent game. I'm using a library computer so each time I play it I get to start over from the beginning and make the solutions simpler.

I am choking with laughter at the Soldiers level, so SO simple. Nice tea break from the more difficult ones

[New User]

Flash Flash Revolution's site has been down for over six months. Might as well take it off the OP.
It was a great game though.

[jaraarph]

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

Highly addictive.
Awesome soundtrack.

High score among my group of friends is 41k

Good luck.

Discovered this game on my first day of study vacation. Worst. Idea. Ever. Takes me about twice as long to finish any work I need to do becuase I need to stop for rainbow-attack breaks.
After a few days of playing it on and off my best run is about 50k, and best score is 80k. But a friend of mine who isn't at uni has managed to get his scores up to 130k so with practice you can only get better

[I Am Raven]

Heir, a flash version of God of War-ish thingy. Tis a platformer, but a really nice one. Really like it.

[Ivora]

Elements the Game

See how good you are.

[Fin Archangel]

Elements the Game

See how good you are.

That definitely hasn't been mentioned over 9000 times already.

[BoomFrog]

Critter Forge Superficially it is like pokemon, but it is very different. You breed and program animals to fight then send them to the coliseum. There's a lot of unknowns about the various inheritable appendages, so there's a lot of 'trade secrets' right now. The heavy analysis and planning has really sucked me in. The coliseum is a little harsh right now for starting creatures, just stick with it until you can afford to go on safari and get samples to breed more interesting (and powerful) creatures.

Edit: I just wanted to add that two of the twenty critters you can breed are Raptors and Cuttlefish.

[Xanthir]

Necronator
Prequel to Infectonator. Similar graphics, but substantially different gameplay - this one's an RTS. You spend mana to summon monsters from your portal and destroy towns, gradually rampaging across the world.

I recommend starting with zombie hordes. They took me clear through the first three kingdoms, all the way to the last town in the fourth kingdom. I simply couldn't defeat it with zombies no matter how hard I tried. Eventually I stumbled on the power combo of skeleton archers and more skeleton archers, which let me finish the fifth kingdom, though I wasn't getting any speed rewards. Finally near the end I picked up the Diablo spell, which let me go back through all of the earlier levels and sweep up all the speed rewards. Diablo rocks.

[Dasboard]

Necronator
Prequel to Infectonator. Similar graphics, but substantially different gameplay - this one's an RTS. You spend mana to summon monsters from your portal and destroy towns, gradually rampaging across the world.

I recommend starting with zombie hordes. They took me clear through the first three kingdoms, all the way to the last town in the fourth kingdom. I simply couldn't defeat it with zombies no matter how hard I tried. Eventually I stumbled on the power combo of skeleton archers and more skeleton archers, which let me finish the fifth kingdom, though I wasn't getting any speed rewards. Finally near the end I picked up the Diablo spell, which let me go back through all of the earlier levels and sweep up all the speed rewards. Diablo rocks.

Not as much fun as Infectonator, but still some good fun. I tried using a combination of high level orcs and the knight hero with a lot of archers, which worked pretty good till the 4th kingdom. Then just mass archer, which was less fun.